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Young women transforming their role in WASH in rural Uttar Pradesh

Published on: 04/08/2022

Empowering young women to become the water managers of the future in India Read more...

What’s WASH got to do with it?

Published on: 16/05/2022

How can the WASH sector contribute to the larger movement on menstrual health, education and equity? Read more...

Kadambari’s story: a WASH champion determined to make change

Published on: 02/05/2022

Training a women's self-help group in rural India to realise their dream of a clean village. Read more...

Embracing the importance of interconnection

Published on: 02/02/2022

Looking back on Post-COP Activists Connect Read more...

Technicians in Honduras checking water quality

With 5 years of change, looking 10 years into the future

Published on: 12/01/2022

Stef Smits' in-depth review of the JMP 2021 data on the progress made in 15 countries and discussing the implications towards 2030. Read more...

Sonamoni’s pride

Published on: 08/03/2021

The Water User Committee in Anandapur village (India) consists of 12 women volunteers who have been trained on issues of water quality, budgeting and more. Read more...

What’s at stake? WASH in times of COVID-19 in India

Published on: 22/10/2020

Guest blogger Srilekha Chakraborty , 2020 winner of the Ton Schouten Award, shares stories from the ground on the pandemic in India. Read more...

Health and safety of sanitation workers during the pandemic

Published on: 22/09/2020

On 30 June 2020, WaterAid India and the Urban Management Centre held a webinar on the health, safety and livelihood challenges sanitation workers face in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...

COVID-19 WASH response in two Indian states

Published on: 03/09/2020

The Aga Khan Foundation is organising WASH interventions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in response to the pandemic. Read more...

Woman sitting in front of computer screen in Ganjam district, Odisha, India

Decolonisation of WASH knowledge: addressing institutional bias

Published on: 22/07/2020

COVID-19 and #BlackLivesMatter are a wake-up call for leaders to take a closer look at WASH knowledge generation. Read more...

Message in a red bottle – sending out an SOS

Published on: 03/07/2020

Report of a WASH Debate on climate adaptation. Read more...

Waste disposal at healthcare facility in Kabarole, Uganda

Treating medical waste during COVID-19 in the Global South

Published on: 15/06/2020

Is hazardous medical waste sufficiently managed? Read more...

Allaying stakeholder concerns when testing sewage for COVID-19

Published on: 12/06/2020

Report of a webinar organised by the SuSanA India chapter, WaterAid India, IRC and the India Sanitation Coalition. Read more...

‘She Makes Change’ if you believe in her

Published on: 10/03/2020

My story of empowerment starts from a toilet, or to be precise the lack of it. Read more...

The UNC Water and Health Conference through the lens of IRC

Published on: 31/10/2019

Where science meets policy, and practice. Read more...

Getting to the root of the problem

Published on: 01/08/2019

Problem tree analysis is a good tool to plan, assess and adapt WASH programmes. Lessons from Watershed India. Read more...

Promising piped water for all by 2024: A pipe dream or reality?

Published on: 22/07/2019

The Indian Government is now embarking on another ambitious 'Jal Jeevan Mission', promising piped water to every household in India by 2024. Read more...

The invisible elephant at the bottom of the pyramid

Published on: 25/06/2019

What can civil society do to achieve the SDGs? Read more...

Rethinking the SDG funding gap

Published on: 13/06/2019

The SDG financing gap will be history, when natural infrastructure (NI) enters the economics and financing computations. Read more...

WASH training in Odisha is too limited

Published on: 22/10/2018

Quality WASH training is only given to state level officials while training at lower levels is sub-standard and sparse. Read more...

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